Machine for working glass and similar substances.



F. L. 0. WADSWORTH.

MACHINE FOR WORKING GLASS AND SiMILAR SUBSTANCES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.26.191 3 Y @m 97. 2a/wc www orirroo oirirro rfirorir orrioo FBNK L. O. WADSXVOETH, OE PITTSBURGH, PEHNSYLVIEI; LSSGNOR TG BALL BROTHERS GLASS RATGN OF INDENA,

AN'ACTUEING CGMPHY, Oft? MUNCXE, INDNA, A C0320- MACHINE F03 WRKINLASS AND SIHILAR SUBSTANCES.

ii known iiol. Fiirii L. O. "Woosmmrii. n fit'zon of tho Unitoii States, residing ai Pi..lirgii. in tho county of AH@ iieny and zi of ienns lvania. have iii rented :i nowaniii usvfiii IS chine for Work Glass :ind Similar Substances, of which the *following is n spociiication.

My invonion relatos. 'so improvements 'in fzratus for receiving und forming a Suo on or mches or portions of molten 'ho p: iiicrila-ir ohjocs of my in'iprovi'ainent are to greatly increase the, speed with whifgf'n such operations may' he, Carried on und to improve the or lity of tho prodot produced as :i iii. ol" the oorutions.

To till; ond my prosont improvements in volvo two coasting Series of rocopzicos whoh uro hrfrmg'h alteri'mtriy nml olioirofr siwly into ginss-rilffoiiing pooiion without' so much interv-:il botwoon siioceosivo pooitionings as. would normally as a result of nominal spacing of the receptacles.

lfri the drawings which form parof this spooiooion, Figure 1 'illustrutos a pion of tri-'o coporaing sot-s of Inols oooh mold of which may he hrough, to a common iiliing position, :ind Fig. Z is a verioai section on lino of 1;

In prrr@ v glass is donvorofl o Suocoiv molds in the orm of successivo portions out by snik-able outliers (such :is cutters 7, 8) from ho and of astrozun of glass owing from a furnace 'or othor source of supply 2. Automatically pporating pressing sind blowing machines are. now well known and l have therefore modo no attr-mp5s to fully illustrato or de# ifi in Such. manner as to he brought.. nltornzitely into receiving posi tion under the fiowingr stre-am o glass, a., irs a nioid such as indioalod at 30 on the fr, blowing or other forn'iing 'ing die mold 3i) imo position'unilor the 1press ing my present invention tho Specification of Letters Eatent. gvgnted Sept, 19, i916, ppii-.ltion filoni February 2&25 1913. Serial No 750,8L5 i tobi@ 2G is brought to said position, then a mold 3l on tho table 20 is brought to Said positionj next a ino'il 32 winced to the.. r f Ying Station, and so on Continuously. in i.. der to secure this alternate fiorano-ement of the. molds first on one to'olo and then on the other, and to Simuluneously sonoro tho roducion in the Soriilied placing interval, I mounlfl each mold independently on its own arm QQ'Whioh is pivood :it tho cont-er on onoI or the mold rubies and is capableor movement with rospocr to ilm mord aihlo through on aro suhstaniinily mimi to that suhtende. 'by ille diameter ol' thi, inold itself. In this case the inoids are brought to filling position when they occupy heir normal position on their rospootivo mold tables. Thus as shown in Fig. l, the mold 30 which is under the {iowing strerini is iviositioned just onosixth of a.

completo revolution from the mold which i iis under 'rh-o pros. .,1 01.

20, and which is next to bo brought to iilling position is disphicmi from its normal po siion through the angie alroz'idyin'ontionod against the tension of; u .light Spring 26. 'Whe-othenioid 3o has bi1/en illofi, the mold tobi@ :20' advance-ii one stop thereby bringplunger 2l. The forwar mow-'ornent o this mold' permizs the mold 3l to b automatically thrown forward to its normal position on the ,table 20 by the pressure of-fho spring v?, tho table. 2U itself romaininjgr stationiiry. The hitter part, oi the movement of tho table 2G @mises tho silooooding mold on irrolo to oo disphroed against the tension of its res'oring spring until. it oooupios a position on table 20' corresponding; to that previously occupied by the Inoki 31 on the roble 20". in tho next. movement of iho apparatus the taloie 20'* is moved hrou 'lf one-sixth or a. revolution thus bringH ing t .o mold :3l into positionl under the press plunger 2l and allowing -ho mold to e ihr iorward by its Spring into the filling po,i )n under the iowing sroinn of glass. As before, the hitter gorion of the table movement displaf-.os tho succeeding inoid on thai', table untii it oo'iipios the. relativo posiionx of the moisi 3L Thoso niternailo in romeni-s of the two tfioios thus briiigfiifolr molii on said zihle in :iiiornat on ril-bio 2Q" is ad- Succession undenthe flowing stream of glass Aand the actuahmold movement required in each case is a movementthrollgh a much smaller are than 4that normally separating I very decided advantages over the use of a the 'machine single set of molds mounted on one table or carrier. In fact it considerably more than doubles the possible speed of operation of .As has already been stated this speed of operation is determined by the intervals required for the pressing and blowing operations; and for a given article and a given temperature of glass these intervals are practically fixed bythe time required for the setting of the molten Inaterial. L s

With tw'o mold tables moving alternately the interval elapsing between the successive step movements of the molds onone table vmay be maintained the Same as the intervals required in the operation of aA singlemold table While practically doubling the number of molds filled and operated upon in a given' period. of time. But in addition to this a decided advantage is gained by the fact that sin order nto fill the increased number of,

,of that stream must be correspondinglyinmoldsjrom a single flowingvstreannthe size creased,4 and the temperature 'of the stream can then be correspondingly', decreased.

This in turn increases r the possible speed with which the pressingJ and the blowing operations may be carried `onwliile still -allowing a sufiicient coolinginterval'forthe setting of the f ormedarticles.' Theincrease in the size of thestream, land the consequent increase in the rapidity of -lling each individual mold has a further decidedadvantage in reducing the chilling elect .of the mold upon the glass, andincorrespondingly improving the quality.v ofthe product. The increase inthe sizeof theqstream, when it.- is operated upon by my improved cut-ofi' mechanism, is also of advantage in securing a more perfect quality of lass from the' furnace, both beiausejsuch g ajss canbe flowed ata lower temperatureand becausea greater proportion of the glass 1n the iiowingstream is freed from any chilling surface contact with portions of the delivery, cut-0E and mold parts.

The size of the flowing stream of glass may be varied to a considerable extent by varying the .ilow of cooling water through the. hollow 'delivery plate 5, and thereby varying both the thicknessof the chilled or congealed skin onthe outside of the glass 'streanrand .also to some extent the temperature of thev flowing glass itself. The rate of low. canals@ varied byAt varying the temperature of the. body eff'fglass in the in any suitable manner, as, for example, by

using adjustable gates.' But I prefer tomaintain the orifice in the block 5 at a uni form size, and regulate the volume of glass in each cutoii mass as far as possible byvarying the thickness of the skin at the edge of the delivery orifice'in the manner above described. If such regulation, together1 Withthe regulation of the temperature in the flow block chamber, is not sufiicient to maintain the cut-oli' masses at predetermined uniform volume, -I maintain that uniformity by regulation of the speed of the operation as. a Whole. It is of course understood that in this operation the mecha'- nism which operates the cut-oil blades is connected to and operated synchronouslyv 'either accelerate or retard the speed of the driving motor by which the connected mechanism as a wholeis operated. For this purpose, a controlling y rheostat i may be used when the'appara'tus is driven by an electric motor,i or some simple form of accelerating or retarding differential gears may be used when the apparatus isdriven by a belt from a line shaft revolving at constant speed.

It will now be obvious to those skilled in theart that various detail modifications of n construction in thevjdelivery, in the cut-ofi", and inA the mold actuating parts may -be -made .without departing from the spirit of myV invention. For example, in place of mounting each individualreceiving mold on a pivoted-arm, it may be mounted on 'a slide, 105 p the waysv ofpvvhich are so shaped as to guide the .mold in 'the desired path relative to the carrier' on which it is' supported, and with which-' itmoves. `4

Thr'oughqut the description andclaims, 110,

which form this specification, the terms molten glass glass, and molten ma# terial are used, and intended to be used, asjgenerally Adescriptive of that comparatively limited class of materials rendered plasticl'l by heat but which do not, .in the'ordinary commercial manipulation thereof at least, reach such condition of fluidity as to be capable of splashing but, instead, remain vis- .cous and somewhat dough-like in character, 12o

glass being probably the most characteristic of these materials and the one most oom' monly commercially manipulated in that condition.

Having now described my invention in1f25 Y suiiicient detail to enable those skilled inthe art toreadily understand incl-claim:v

- 1./In a lass working apparatus, Vthe com-1 binaon '0 A.twoadjacent rotary tables, a plu- 'ralityfofgm'old carriers associated with one 13uy of said tables and each movable with said table and capa-ble of independent arrest during,r movement of said table, a plurality of mold carriers mounted upon the other table and each movable with said table and capable of independent arrest during movement of said table, the said two sets of mold earriers interengagfing,r and passing through a `common point of travel, means for establishbination of a set of molds revoluble about a common axis to bring the several molds successively into registryv with aglass dfelivery line, and a second set of molds revoluble about a eommon axis other than the axis of the first set and movable successively into the same glass delivery line in alternation with the molds of the companion set.

3. In a glass-working apparatus, the con'ili'uiation of a set of molds revoluble aboutv a mmmon axis and independently arrestable successively at a glass delivery 1ine,'d,iv-' i mar means for simultaneously acting upon the several molds of =the set,said drivin means being,r of such character as to ermit iiidependent and successive arrestof t B se'vv eral molds, a second set of molds revoluble about an axis other than the axis of the;

irst set and of similarcharacteristics, and a similar driving member v'for said 'second set, the said two of molds being interdigitated to permit'suecessive alternateai'- rest at the glass delivery line.

In witness whereof, I' have hereunto fse myhand at Indianapolis, Indiana, this foul-4 teenth-day of February, A. D. one-thousand nine hundred and thirteen. .Y

FRANK. L. O. WADSWORTH." lVitnesses:

AiriHUii M. Hoon, FRANK A. FAiiim. 

